Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has criticised the Blues for their poor Premier League position.

The 37-year-old is worried that in the attempt to play better football, the Londoners are losing their fighting spirit.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, the midfielder said: ‘I do worry about where the real personalities of the team are.

‘To be a big team, you have to have big personalities. I don’t want to sound like I am harking back to the days of me and John [Terry] and Ashley Cole and Petr Cech and Didier Drogba but I do see a team now where John is the last mainstay of that identity.

‘We had a fantastic spirit at Chelsea. We are kind of famous for it now. People criticised us for it to try to take away the gloss of what we were doing. Maybe Chelsea are looking for a more beautiful way now.

Is Terry their last remaining leader? (Picture: Getty Images)

‘The club has been trying to push it down that route with the players they have recruited over the last four or five years. The problem is if you fall in the middle, somewhere between tough and beautiful.

‘It’s nice football at times but it’s not that nice and it’s not really winning games. It’s not beautiful, beautiful stuff.

‘They need to buy two or three big players. Because being 11th in the Premier League is ridiculous for Chelsea.’